Re: e-mail address mining tool?

From: Tomasz Nidecki (tonid@hakin9.org)
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 07:09:44 EST


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Thursday, November 10, 2005, 12:26:48 PM, James wrote:

> It is also worth considering that companies will not necessarily
> assign employees e-mail addresses matching their usernames - there
> is, in fact, quite a strong argument to be made for assigning people
> usernames exclusively for authentication and making their e-mail
> address entirely different. A company might, for instance, give Joe
> Bloggs the username Bloggs01J, and make his e-mail address
> Joe.Bloggs@example.org - and simply don't setup a mailbox or alias
> for Bloggs01J@example.org (or, only accept mail to Bloggs01J
> internally, and only setup the Joe.Bloggs address for your external
> mail domain).

... and it's also worth considering that many companies use solutions
such as vmailmgr or vpopmail, where there is actually one system
account per domain or per mail server.

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Tomasz Nidecki, Sekr. Redakcji / Managing Editor
hakin9 magazine http://www.hakin9.org
mailto:tonid@hakin9.org jid:tonid@tonid.net

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